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Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Kamla Susheila Persad-Bissessar SC MP, often referred to by her initials KPB, is a Trinidadian lawyer, politician and educator who has twice served as the prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, from 2010 to 2015 and since May 2025. She has also been the Political Leader of the United National Congress since 2010, and was the Leader of the Opposition three times, from 2006 to 2007, January to May 2010, and from 2015 to 2025. Persad-Bissessar is the second prime minister to have served non-consecutive terms, after Patrick Manning.
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Christine Kangaloo. Christine Carla Kangaloo is a Trinidadian lawyer and politician who has served as the 7th President of Trinidad and Tobago since 2023. Kangaloo holds the distinction of being the first and only person to have served as Vice President of the Senate, President of the Senate, and President of the Republic in separate and distinct appointments. During her tenure as President of the Senate (2015???2023), she acted as President of the Republic on 33 separate occasions before being formally elected to the office by the Electoral College on 20 January 2023. Upon succeeding Paula-Mae Weekes on 20 March 2023, she became the first woman in the Americas to succeed another woman as Head of State. Globally, she is the second woman to achieve this feat in a parliamentary republic, following Ireland's Mary McAleese, who succeeded Mary Robinson in 1997. Additionally, she is the first woman of Indian ancestry to serve as a president of a country in the Americas.
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